Friday, 2 October 2015

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The topic is of, I would almost say, existential importance to the
future of Europe, said the first vice-president Frans Timmmermans in
his forceful opening of the European Commission's first annual
colloquium on fundamental rights (press release and video).

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Europe
is going through a period of crisis and turmoil, which is challenging
the very values on which it was built. It is challenging the very
fabric of European society and therefore the very fabric of European
cooperation. The rise of antisemitism, the rise of Islamophobia, each
in their own way are symptoms, Timmermans
stated.

Today

You
can follow the livestream, when the colloquium continues today, 2
October 2015, at 9 am local time, but
you have to go no farther than to the live Twitter stream under
#NoPlace4Hate to see the challenge, with various fundamentalists at
loggerheads over past atrocities and current animosity.